Arabia in the past three weeks as part of a crackdown on
illegal workersEthiopian workers stranded in Yemen last year after fleeing
Saudi Arabia
Thousands of Egyptians, Indonesians, Malaysians and
others have also been flown out of the country as the Saudi
government seeks to create jobs for local people by
deporting some of the estimated nine million foreign
workers.
An amnesty for people working in the country without proper
permits expired on November 4 and, since then, planes have
been taking off around the clock to get the workers to their
home countries.
The crackdown has involved tens of thousands of people
being rounded up and has led to disturbances in which
three Ethiopians have been killed. Almost one million illegal
workers had left voluntarily over the past few months.
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